Curry Village Pizza Patio & Bar

umm… it’s not closed is it? i know they close seasonally… so it’s probably open again.
ok i got the scoop… there is a new vendor in Yosemite Valley so there are a ton of name changes happening! …these business’s are not closed… they just have new names
this is now called Half Dome Village Pizza Deck
its a patio. they have pizza… they have beer and they have cocktails…
yes it’s pricey
no it’s not the best darn pizza you ever had…
but it’s the best deal in the area (and there really isn’t that much to pick from!)
i love yosemite…
i bring my own food …
but sometimes the kids just want some pizza and mommy wants a margarita… and daddy wants a beer
this is the place to go!!!
during the summer months… enjoy your drinks and food on the patio…
during the winter months… it closes… but just go inside and you can order your pizza there! the full bar is missing… but you can still get beer and wine.

Pizza was surprisingly good here. Their local beer called half dome is awesome too. Nice little seating area and prices are not as bad as I would expect from basically the only food option near Curry Village. I would go there again when I am back at Yosemite for sure. Amazing to be able to eat and stay right in the middle of the park!

«Tomorrow will be the most beautiful day of Raymond K. Hessel’s life. His breakfast will taste better than any meal you and I have ever tasted.» –Tyler Durden
That’s kind of how I feel after doing a one-​day ascent of Half Dome via the Snake Dike route, and then rushing back to Curry to eat and drink here.
We hit the trail at 2:30am and arrived back at the car at 8:45pm.
Take this review with a grain of salt.
My favorite thing here is the Mammoth IPA. It is shockingly good. It is so cool, so crisp, so quenching… so delightfully pallet-​punching in its hoppiness.
The pizza is also good; if it were anywhere else it’d be OK. Here it’s…maybe it’s better than good, maybe it’s amazing.
They have WiFi here, but you have to pay for it, and it’s still slow as snail-​in-​molasses. Not really worth it.
In fact, everything is overpriced. But this is Yosemite. It is located in California. It’s probably the most popular «natural place» in the state.
They stop pouring beers PROMPTLY at 10pm. GET YOUR ORDER IN BEFORE THEN. There is NO flexibility here. They are stiff wood that will not bend.
That IPA though, man.
PROTIP: watch out for the obese, aggressive squirrels. They can barely climb trees but they have no problems snatching pizza from a naked, sluggish ground-​ape.

Had a medium tomato, banana pepper, and Canadian bacon pizza. Fed my wife and me adequately after a long day of hiking. Price was fair and wait time average. Tasty meal in a great setting. Highly recommend.

Chile dog was cold, no sour kraut but lots of onions, peppers and cheese. Hot chocolate was good.

Stay away this food is absolutely disgusting use it as a last result the pizza and everything else on the menu is gross .
Stay away far away

A 3 star restaurant, but this is the best restaurant in Curry Village by far. As such, this gets 4 stars.
My wife and I shared a medium pizza (8 slices). We added pepperoni and mushroom. The food isn’t that bad given your options around the area. This was probably the best restaurant in Curry Village. As such, my wife and I opted to eat here twice during our stay in Yosemite.
PROS:
–Food is just alright. Considering your options around the area, this is as good as it gets.
–A solid bar next door which serves beers on tap, bottles, and some mixed drinks. Pints are $ 6 and schooners are about $ 9. The bar is extremely small, it’s just a bar and seats 4 people inside. As such, expect to drink out-​doors on the patio.
CONS:
–Pricey/​expensive. A medium pizza is about $ 16 (cheese only). Each additional topping runs about $ 1.50 each.
TIPS:
–Expect to eat outdoors on the patio. Dress appropriately, especially at night.
–Line gets REALLY long at night. Eat early to beat the lines

Im telling you breh Curry has everything except for actual CURRY! so we tried this place out one night when we stayed at curry village. It was pretty good. Not crazy good but ok. The prices are steap too I guess you pay for the place.
My wifes margarita was, again, just ok. The chilli dogs were good. I went next door to buy a six pack instead of paying 7 bucks for a beer. Lol im not cheap, im just smart :) its probably not cool with them, but remember kids, its not against the rules until you get caught.
But I have to admit its a pretty cool addition to curry village. I enjoyed the company more than anything.

Pretty decent small pizza. Thin crust and works for a campground fer sure. Obviously a little pricy, but so is everything in the valley.

We got a large pizza with pepperoni, mushroom, and jalapeño. I’m not sure if it was good because we had just completed a 9 mile hike or if it was that we were famished, but it was good. The outside reading area was nice, relaxing, and clean. The guy at the bar serving alcohol was cool. Great selection of beer.

Is this the best pizza ever? Ummmm, of course not! Is it the best thing ever, when you’ve been hiking ALL day!!! and I’m not talking, let’s walk around the valley floor, I’m talking real, serious, legitimate hiking! All damn day! At that point, is it good? Hell yes, it is! At that point, do I blink an eye at a 12 slice pie and some non Coca Cola products (Pepsi, gross!!! and I maybe, maybe have one soda a year, if that) being $ 30? Of course not! We’re from LA so talking over priced isn’t usually something I do, I have no concept of what over priced is on most occasions.
This is also the only place open in the area open until 10P so you don’t have many options, there’s another pizza joint in Yosemite Village and I’ve found out the bar/​lounge at the Ahwahnee is open until 11P but if you’re a mess after a very long day you really don’t have time to get yourself «resort ready» when all you want to do is have some dinner.
My boyfriend and I ate dinner here two nights in a row at around 945P, the line can be long but moves pretty quickly. You are then given a buzzer and the pizza is ready in a reasonable amount of time given how many orders they are cranking out.
We had a little routine going, order the pizza (night 1 I was soooo hungry I ordered a large and half went to waste — a medium is plenty!) and then walk into the lodge area to hit the coffee & ice-​cream area. Dare anyone call those prices high. I think what they are charging for large scoops of ice-​creams and espresso is completely fair. I’d have a scoop of ice-​cream while our pizza was prepared and then chow down on our pie, which was surprisingly delish after the days we’d had out on the trails.
Was this my first choice for dinner? No. Did I nearly refuse to eat from here night 1 after discovering they were our only option? Yes. After trying them, would I recommend or return in the future? Sure!
And let’s not let this review go without mentioning the Bar. Yes, BAR! Right beside the Pizza ordering area. They have a small counter inside and a large outdoor patio/​pavilion area with a ton of round tables to eat at. I however found it most comfortable to dine indoors after a long day where regular restrooms are also located.

Our first night at the park, we opted for one of the few eating choices available on a weekday. The place allows for three sizes and a wide array of toppings on top of hot dogs, chili dogs, and various other fast food type edibles. We got a half and half pizza: half veggie and half Canadian bacon and pineapple. It was AMAZING. A very nice surprise! Expected a kind of bland cooked in the microwave type thing but did not get that. The crust was crisp and the toppings plentiful. A very good pizza in the woods that went very well with the beer we got from the local brewery (they have beers and wine you can get from the pizza place, as well).

Great location but terrible food. The staff is full of wonderful and friendly people and they don’t gouge you on prices. There are not very many food options in the valley so this place has very little competition. Foodies need not apply but it got the job done.

Reasonably good pizzas at a not-​so-​high price.
We stayed at Yosemite for two days and a night, and camped at curry village. This was the nearest restaurant to grab dinner. I expected restaurants to be extremely over priced near the camps. But, to my pleasant surprise, the cost wasn’t very high.
We ordered a large pizza with onion and garlic toppings. It was enough and more for four of us. It wasn’t particularly delicious, but, its a pizza, so, I didn’t expect much either.
The seating place is large and comfortably heated. If you are with a group, there are big round tables where you can spend hours talking away in the heated space.
However, look out for rodents. There was a rodent when we were having dinner. The staff immediately chased it away, but it kind of freaked me out, specially after reading about the hanta virus in their mails.
Overall, its a pretty good place to grab dinner at, when you are camping and there are not many options around.

I enjoyed the porter and the pizza is okay but the cost is what anyone would expect in a place for the tourists. Toppings are over priced. Also, long line as there isn’t any other thing to eat this time of the year in the Curry Village besides the restaurant next door that isn’t any better. If you don’t mind spending a lot on pizza this place is great but if you’re like me and expect fast food to be cheap than don’t forget to bring your camping stove top and just walk across to the campgrounds across the way and cook yourself up food. They do have 1 grocery store at the Yosemite Village Store… stock up not worth the long wait in the cold with the huge crowd at the Curry Village Camp site.

For a pizza place inside a national park, this place is surprisingly pleasant to eat at.
For one, the wait staff is very friendly, which is NOT a given usually at tourisy areas. They went out of their way to explain how pricing works, and gave us tips on «free refills» on the soda etc. Overall a pretty chill group of folks, despite having to deal with tourists everyday!
In terms of food quality, the pizza was also pretty well done. Not the best pizza in the world, but it was definitely above average compared to most pizza places outside of the park. That counts for A LOT in my book, since I would imagine pizza places inside tourist spots to be much, much worse than average.
There is also a bar next to the pizza place, that serves Mammoth related beer. Apparently this is locally brewed, and taste pretty smooth /​light, just the way I liked it. Definitely recommended.
There is also a bunch of outside patio seats, but usually gets full pretty quickly. Get a spot while you still can!

Long lines, but tasty pizza. I also love that you get to sit out on the patio and just enjoy the outdoors (though outdoors filled with tourists). The pizza definitely hits the spot and it does come out quickly so you won’t have to wait too long once you’ve put your order in.
There’s a deli near the visitor’s center that also has a pizzaria in the evenings. It’s a close race as to which place wins for best pizza in the area. Just letting you know that there are other pizza options out there if you don’t want to wait in the long lines.

It’s not the best pizza in the world by any objective standard, but of course the subjective deliciousness of a piece of pizza depends heavily on context. And after a day of hiking around Yosemite, a pizza here, accompanied by a cold Tuolomne Meadows IPA is one of the most satisfying pizzas I can remember. (I particularly recommend pepperoni, tomato, and green pepper, but you don’t need me to tell you what you like on your pizza.)
Yes, the pizza is a little doughy, generic, and overpriced. But consider the law of revealed preferences: In four nights in Yosemite, this is the only place we ate twice.

As my friends and I were standing in line trying to decide on what size pizza and what toppings to order a fellow pizza patron came to the line and bellowed some magical words, «Anyone in the pizza line waiting to order want a free pizza?» Swoop! We snatched that sucker up quick. Thank-​you kind sir for sharing your leftover pizza with us hungry rock climbers. We made quick work of that large pizza.
The pizza was tastier than expected. It had a good doughy crust and decent gooey mozzarella. Even the parmesan packets tasted of good quality. There were different toppings on the pizza. The ham and pineapple combo was most popular with our group and then the sausage and pepperoni and lastly the cheese. For pizza served in a national park, not bad.

We ate here the 2^nd night, as we did not enjoy the dining hall much the night before. The pizza is better than the dining hall food overall, but I still would not call it great pizza. It is pizza that is passable, especially after a long day of hiking when you are tired and hungry. I would compare it to a chain pizza joint like Papa John’s.
It takes a while to get your order, as there is always a line of people. There is a nice outdoor patio for seating, or you can take your pizza into the dining hall if you prefer to eat indoors. A large pizza is a bit pricey at $ 18.95.